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The true country themes in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor

"Many critics of Flannery O'Connor's work have argued that the pervasiveness of shock and black irony in her narrative form is merely the exploitation of the grotesque. In this incisive analysis, Carter Martin explores another viewpoint: that O'Connor uses these devices to express Catholic orthodoxy, that her satire is a vehicle for compassion, and that her irony expresses the sharp antithesis between acceptance and rejection of grace."--From publisher description.

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